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African-American Fiction & Non-fiction October 2019
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Guilty Gucci
by Ashley Antoinette
Gucci, leader of the Red Bottom Bandits, gets caught in a botched robbery while the other members of the band escape, and, faced with a charge of murder, she must decide if she is going to save herself by agreeing to testify against them. Available as e-book and e-audiobook.
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More to Life
by Reshonda Tate Billingsley
An unfulfilled wife and mother enrages her family and stuns her friends when she makes an impulsive decision to change her life from taking care of everyone except herself and focus on her own happiness during a tropical vacation.
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The revolution of Birdie Randolph
by Brandy Colbert
Sixteen-year-old Dove "Birdie" Randolph's close bond with her parents is threatened by a family secret, and by hiding her relationship with Booker, who has been in juvenile detention. Shelved in YA fiction.
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I do love you still
by Mary B Morrison
A power couple famed for their talents and passion-driven clashes face an ultimate test when one is given a rare chance to move her fashion brand to New York City at the same time the other secures an Olympic spot.
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King Reece
by Shaun Sinclair
After leaving a stint in prison, Reece, the former leader of the Crescent Crew wants to secure the gang's drug trade dominance while working on a brutal vendetta in the second novel of the series following Street Rap. Available in CD format.
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The undertaker's assistant
by Amanda Skenandore
Former slaver Effie Jones must return from the North to Reconstruction-era New Orleans, to earn her living as an embalmer; however, returning home stirs a desire in her to trace her kin against the backdrop of the growing violence and racial turmoil in the city.
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The safe house
by Kiki Swinson
With the local police closing in on her as the prime suspect in her abusive boyfriend’s disappearance, a fierce, strong woman has got no choice but to ditch the feds and take down a cartel leader on her own. By a national best-selling author.
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The nickel boys : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
A follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning, The Underground Railroad, follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida
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Lower ed : the troubling rise of for-profit colleges in the new economy
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Drawing on her personal experience as a former counselor at two for-profit colleges and interviews with students, senior executives and activists, a renowned sociologist reveals how for-profit schools have become so successful and deciphers the benefits, credentials pitfalls and real costs of a for-profit education.
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The bold world : a memoir of family and transformation
by Jodie Patterson
A respected activist, entrepreneur and writer draws on inspiration from her 10-year-old transgender child in an exploration of identity, gender, authenticity and race as they have shaped generations of her African-American family.
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The good immigrant : 26 writers reflect on America
by Nikesh Shukla
A U.S. follow-up to the best-selling U.K. edition collects urgent essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism and marginalization in today's increasingly divided America. Includes Teju Cole's "On the Blackness of the Panther" and Wale Oyejide's "After Migration."
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Feel free : essays
by Zadie Smith
In a collection of essays arranged into five sections—In the World, In the Audience, In the Gallery, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free—the best-selling author of Swing Time discusses important questions about our world that readers will immediately recognize.
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The path made clear : discovering your life's direction and purpose
by Oprah Winfrey
The award-winning global media leader and philanthropist offers a guide for identifying one's purpose and creating a framework for a life that is both successful and meaningful, sharing inspirational quotes by some of today's most influential cultural figures.
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Minion : a vampire huntress legend
by L. A. Banks
A spoken-word artist by day for Warriors of Light Records and a vampire hunter at night, Damali Richards and her Guardian team take on a vicious group of rogue vampires who have been killing off the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music, a gang led by the most powerful vampire Damali has ever encountered.
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Fledgling
by Octavia E. Butler
Shori, a seemingly young, amnesiac girl with frightening inhuman abilities and a thirst for blood, wanders the land, unaware that she is really a genetically altered, fifty-three-year-old vampire with a unique ability to walk in the light of day and that she is the only survivor of a brutal attack on her community, searching for who she is and who wants to destroy her.
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Ghost summer : stories
by Tananarive Due
A collection that includes a novella and short stories takes readers to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghosts
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The ballad of Black Tom
by Victor D. LaValle
In jazz age New York City, Charles Thomas Tester delivers an occult book to a reclusive sorceress in Queens that opens the door to deeper realm of magic, and in the process gets the unwanted attention of things that should not be disturbed. Like this one? Try LaValle's Changeling next.
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The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural
by Pat McKissack
A Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award-winning collection of ten eerie tales about African-Americans evinces the feelings of the South and promises spine-tingling suspense. Juvenile fiction, available as an e-book.
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed, in a new edition of the Nobel Laureate's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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White is for witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
Suffering an acute form of pica throughout her youth that is exacerbated by her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Miranda helps to run the family bed-and-breakfast while witnessing her community's hostilities toward outsiders, a malice that erupts in violent and destructive ways.
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Lovecraft Country : a novel
by Matt Ruff
Blends multiple genres in a visceral exploration of the Jim Crow era and its legacy, tracing the story of young Army vet Atticus Turner, who in 1954 Chicago travels with his publisher uncle and childhood friend to search for his missing father only to encounter human and supernatural terrors at the estate of a descendant of slave owners.
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